{"product_id":"molecular-politics-developing-american-and-british-regulatory-policy-for-genetic-engineering-19721982-9780226910659","title":"Molecular Politics Developing American and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comparative study of the development of regulatory policy for genetic engineering in the US and the UK. The author analyzes government responses to the struggles among corporations, scientists, universities, trade unions and public-interest groups over regulating this new field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Preface  Acknowledgments  Introduction: Exploring the Boundary between Politics and Science  1: Social Interests in Promoting and Controlling Science and Technology  1.1: Expansion of Government Support for Science, 1945 to the Late 1960s: The United States  1.2: Expansion of Government Support for Science, 1945 to the Late 1960s: The United Kingdom  1.3: Reassessing Science and Technology, 1965-1975  1.4: Deregulation and Selective Growth: 1970s and 1980s  1.5: The Shaping of American and British Science Policy  2: The Social Transformation of Recombinant DNA Technology, 1972-1982  2.1: Anticipations of Genetic Engineering, 1952-1970  2.2: The First Gene-Splicing Experiments, 1969-1973  2.3: Visions of a Commercial Future, 1974-1976  2.4: Genetic Engineering Enters the Business Arena, 1976-1979  2.5: The \"Cloning Gold Rush,\" 1979-1982  2.6: A New Commercial Ethos  2.7: A Transformation of Interest  3: The Emergence and Definition of the Genetic Engineering Issue, 1972-1975  3.2: Social Interests in Genetic Engineering  3.3: Precedents  3.4: Emergence of the Recombinant DNA Issue, 1973-1974  3.5: Initiating Recombinant DNA Policy in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1972-1976  3.6: The Asilomar Conference, 24-27 February 1975  3.7: The Asilomar Legacy  4: Initiating Government Controls in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1975-1976  4.1: The Politics of the NIH Guidelines  4.2: Forming the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee  4.3: Developing the NIH Guidelines, 1975-1976  4.4: The Hearing before the Director's Advisory Committee, February 1976  4.5: Promulgating the 1976 NIH Guidelines: Industry and the Public Enter the Policy Debate  4.6: The Politics of Genetic Engineering in the United Kingdom  4.7: The Williams Committee and the Formation of British Policy  4.8: Forming the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group  4.9: The American and British Policy Paradigms: Variations on the Asilomar Legacy  5: Defusing the Controversy: The Politics of Risk Assessment  5.1: The Spread of the Recombinant DNA Controversy  5.2: The Hazard Problem: A Case Study in the Closure of a Technical Controversy  5.3: The Meetings at Bethesda, Falmouth, and Ascot  5.4: Further Sources of \"New Evidence\"  5.5: The Politics of Risk Assessment  5.6: Dissemination\/Legitimation  6: Derailing Legislation, 1977-1978  6.1: The Politics of Government Control of Recombinant DNA Technology  6.2: Biomedical Research as an \"Affected Industry\"  6.3: The Rise and Fall of Recombinant DNA Legislation  6.4: The Political Impact of the Legislative Defeat  7: Revising the National Institutes of Health Controls, 1977-1978  7.1: The Social and Political Setting  7.2: Revisions Proposed, 1977  7.3: The Director's Advisory Committee Meeting, December 1977  7.4: The Position of Private Industry, December 1977  7.5: Cloning Viral DNA: The Original Problem Reassessed  7.6: Making the Changes: Initiating a Policy Reversal  7.7: Revisions Released, December 1978  8: Operating the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group, 1977-1978  8.1: The Social and Political Setting  8.2: The Politics of GMAG  8.3: Implementing the Williams Proposals, 1977  8.4: Developing the Brenner Scheme, 1977-1978  9: Dismantling the National Institutes of Health Controls: From Prevention to Crisis Intervention, 1979  9.1: The Social and Political Setting  9.2: Industry, Academe, and the Politics of the NIH Controls  9.3: The Status of the Hazards Debate  9.4: The Wye Meeting  9.5: The New Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee  9.6: The Rowe-Campbell Proposal: The First Move toward Dismantling the NIH Controls  9.7: A Turn in Discourse and Policy  10: Dismantling the National Institutes of Health Controls but Preserving Quasi-regulation, 1980-1982  10.1: Dismantling Controls  10.2: The Evolution of the NIH Industrial Policy  10.3: The Politics of the RAC: Industry, Science, and the Public  11: Dismantling the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group, 1979-1984  11.1: The Social and Political Setting  11.2: The New GMAG  11.3: Implementing the New Risk Assessment Scheme  11.4: Relaxing Oversight  11.5: Closely Watched Trends: Regulating Industrial Processes  11.6: Terminating GMAG  11.7: Achieving Parity  12: Molecular Politics in a Global Economy  Appendix A: Excerpts from Transcript of the Enteric Bacteria Meeting, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 31 August 1976  Appendix B: New Data on Recombinant DNA Hazards Addressed in Relation to the Rowe-Campbell Proposal  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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